Sunday, September 26, 2010

Pulling a plane...

Kari's brother Rob invited us to the 2010 Plane Pull at O'Hare on Saturday.  This is a charity event for Special Olympics.  Essentially, you line up a team of 20 people tug-of-war style.  Instead of pulling against another team of 20 people, you are testing the fundamental laws of physics with about 100 tons of Airbus. 

It was a lot of fun.  James & Katie got to hang out with Uncle Rob & Aunt Audrey plus see cousins Caroline and Olivia.  We also got a behind the scenes tour of the O'Hare airfield.  I was supposed to help pull for Rob's company team but we had to leave before they were up because James had a soccer game.  Team HNTB did just fine without my added mass. 

Here is the formidable plane. 


...Caroline, Olivia and Katie checking out the plane...

...James posing with the plane...

They had a bunch of equipment available to explore, including some crash trucks and some snow plows.  Here is James in the cabin of a massive snow plow. 

...and Katie at the wheel...

Rob & the girls at the helm of the snow plow...



Enjoy!

Jay


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